Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

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30 mai 2025

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OAPEN Library Society and social sciences

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Material Culture and Modern Conflict

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Open Access Publishing in European Networks

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Young Men Water Boatmen RAF Station Rosebay Willowherb RAF Pilot Gas Mask Anti-aircraft Guns Air Raid Shelters Wartime Childhood Siren Suit Model Aircraft Shrapnel Fragments Willow Herb Disordered Space Incendiary Bombs World War Britain Public Shelters Balsa Wood Fireman

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Childhood Youngsters Pedology (Child study) Kids (Children)

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Gabriel Moshenska, « Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain », OAPEN Library Society and social sciences, ID : 10670/1.73de2d...

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How do children cope when their world is transformed by war? This book draws on memory narratives to construct an historical anthropology of childhood in Second World Britain, focusing on objects and spaces such as gas masks, air raid shelters and bombed-out buildings. In their struggles to cope with the fears and upheavals of wartime, with families divided and familiar landscapes lost or transformed, children reimagined and reshaped these material traces of conflict into toys, treasures and playgrounds. This study of the material worlds of wartime childhood offers a unique viewpoint into an extraordinary period in history with powerful resonances across global conflicts into the present day.

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